The 2022 overturning of Roe v. Wade, rising threats to women's reproductive rights, and increasing populations of incarcerated women inspired this secondary analysis of qualitative data exploring the intersections between reproductive justice and mass incarceration. The original phenomenological study focused on women's perspectives on their interactions with law enforcement and the criminal legal system at the time of their arrests. Participants were recruited from a women's drop-in center for a three-round interview process. This secondary study revisited 13 participants’ transcripts to explore how the legal system intersected with and contributed to reproductive injustice. De-identified transcripts were analyzed using open coding and focused coding to identify themes and sub-themes. Four primary themes emerged, revealing a range of systemic inadequacies and the need for systemic reforms in the legal system: parental rights, healthcare access, economic challenges and homelessness, and systemic bias and discrimination. These findings amplify the often-overlooked voices of those with direct lived experiences, with participants clearly emphasizing the urgent need for adequate and equitable support and treatment. From a critical feminist perspective, the analysis links mass incarceration with reproductive injustice, highlighting intersecting systems of oppression.

Currently, almost half of the human population is at risk of acquiring dengue. Other emerging pathogens affecting human populations transmitted by Aedes (Stegomyia) aegypti are chikungunya and Zika viruses. People who live in poor areas are more susceptible to be infected by these diseases. The lack of selective garbage collection and inadequate water storage are important factors in the dynamics of vector-borne transmission. This study took place in Estrutural City, the poorest city in Brasilia, Brazil, which hosted the largest open dump in America Latina and second largest in the world for almost 60 years; many of the inhabitants are waste pickers, who live and survive by gathering and selling recyclable waste. A qualitative study used semi-structured interviews with 100 participants to understand the experiences regarding community knowledge on mosquitos, contributing and prevention measures, and water access. Previous research on waste pickers has focused on vector-borne diseases, their exposure, and mitigation strategies. This research uncovered novel experiences that confirmed the plethora of knowledge of this population regarding exposure to vectors, specifically dengue. Participants mentioned contributing factors to the disease, while identifying mosquitos that carry dengue, and how often and how specifically it was to have dengue. They also mention preventative techniques that they currently take and strategies to improve upon these. These findings and actions will provide new control alternatives for arboviruses in risk areas and contribute to continued public health policies and basic services to be provided to the vulnerable communities.

This study aims to bring reproductive justice issues to a more in-depth discussion within the field of social work and to explore social work students’ understandings and perspectives on these important issues. An extensive qualitative analysis of 90 academic, published, peer-reviewed articles on the topic of reproductive justice was completed. The 20 major findings and emergent themes were identified using the conventional content analysis approach and formatted in order to be used as the foundation for developing the survey questionnaire. This questionnaire was then utilized to explore 123 university students’ perspectives on normative expectations regarding childbearing and reproduction. Findings indicated that those across the gender spectrum had similar levels of awareness of these expectations, demonstrating that personal experiences are not necessarily a prerequisite for awareness. Other identity markers like age, socioeconomic status, and parenting status did have some impact. Therefore, positionality and intersectionality do appear to play a role.

This study examines how reproductive autonomy is shaped across interconnected systems that structure criminalization and access to care, including the periods leading up to incarceration, during custody, and after release. While feminist scholarship has documented reproductive oppression inside jails and prisons, less is known about how control over reproductive life is organized across the broader institutional landscape that surrounds them. Drawing on in-depth qualitative interviews with ten formerly incarcerated adults in California, this article traces how reproductive health care is disrupted, rationed, and reconfigured across time and settings. Participants described four linked patterns: early neglect in reproductive and menstrual care, intensified reproductive denial and control while incarcerated, institutional abandonment at the point of reentry, and ongoing exclusion from reproductive and sexual health services after release. These themes show incarceration functioning not only as a discrete episode of confinement but also as one site within a wider system of reproductive regulation structured by racialized surveillance, gendered discipline, and structural abandonment. The article advances feminist theory by framing reproductive control as a core mechanism of carceral power and by grounding debates about embodiment, autonomy, and state regulation in the lived experiences of people who have been incarcerated. It also examines the limits of reform, arguing that reproductive justice cannot be secured through improved services within punitive systems and instead requires forms of care and support that are not organized through punishment or control.